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College and Career Preparatory Academy

Fountain Valley · CA · Orange County Department of Education · Public charter

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Programs & features
  • Program details not reported to CRDC
Academic signals
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 15% (Bottom 2% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How College and Career Preparatory Academy compares for families

What families should know about College and Career Preparatory Academy.

  • LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Los Amigos High, Hector G. Godinez, Bethel Baptist School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 2% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
15%
Range: 11–19%
4-year cohort size
45
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

96.4%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 67 in 2021 to 165 in 2024 — over 3 years.
+146.3%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -7.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 168 students:

2025
156
2027
134
2029
116

A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Los Amigos High
Fountain Valley
Public 0.8 1,430 -14.4%
Hector G. Godinez
Santa Ana
Public 0.8 1,687 -23.5%
Bethel Baptist School
Santa Ana
Private 1.0 83 -59.9%
Magnolia Science Academy Santa Ana
Santa Ana
Public · charter 1.1 188 +11.2%
Valley High
Santa Ana
Public 1.3 1,908 -15.2%
Lorin Griset Academy
Santa Ana
Public 1.4 283 +1.8%
La Quinta High
Westminster
Public 1.7 2,041 -3.8%
Vista Meridian Global Academy
Santa Ana
Public · charter 1.9 260 +50.3%

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